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Headquartered at 619 36th St SW · In Wyoming, not driving in · Fixed-price contracts (the quote is the price) · 3D design on the first visit · 2-year workmanship warranty · 4.7★ on Google
A Wyoming bathroom contractor that is actually headquartered in Wyoming — 619 36th St SW, minutes from your home. Curbless walk-in showers, aging-in-place baths, mid-century ranch updates, and full primary suites for Wyoming, Grandville, Kentwood, Byron Center, and the Wyoming-adjacent neighborhoods of Grand Rapids. No shower-liner gimmicks. No allowance games. We're not driving in — we're your neighbors.
Book Your Free Discovery Call619 36th St SW, Wyoming, MI 49509 · Between Burlingame and Clyde Park, minutes from most Wyoming bathrooms. By appointment only — we come to you for in-home consultations. · Open in Google Maps →
Almost every contractor showing up on a Wyoming, MI bathroom search is driving in — from Grand Rapids, from Grandville, or from a national franchise with a corporate office in another state. We are not. Thornapple Construction is headquartered at 619 36th St SW, between Burlingame and Clyde Park, in the geographic middle of the city. For our Wyoming neighbors, that is not a marketing line — it is a structural advantage that shows up every single week of your bathroom project.
When the project lead lives 5 to 15 minutes from your house instead of 30 minutes the other way, things change in your favor. A tile-sample sign-off, a fixture question, or a punch-list walk gets answered the same morning instead of batched up to justify the drive. Tile, vanities, and glass can be staged at our shop and brought over the morning of install instead of stacking in your driveway for a week. And when the bathroom is done and a grout line needs a touch-up six months later, warranty service is a same-week visit — not a scheduling negotiation with a crew now working the other side of the metro.
Wyoming is also a value-conscious market — and that is exactly why the fixed-price contract matters here. The temptation is to take the lowest bid. But the lowest bid is where the budget creeps, the allowances run dry mid-project, and the change orders pile up. Our fixed-price design-build process removes that risk: every material, trade, and permit is itemized and locked before you sign. The number we quote is the number you pay. For a Wyoming bathroom on a real budget, that certainty is worth more than a cheap headline price that grows by demolition day.
If you are planning a bathroom remodel anywhere in Wyoming — the mid-century ranches off Burlingame, the older homes in Marquette and Banner, or the newer subdivisions near Rivertown Crossings — the first step is a free in-home consultation. We build your bathroom in 3D during that visit. From there, you decide whether the numbers and the design line up before any further commitment. From a builder five minutes down the road.
A full primary suite in a 1990s Wyoming two-story and a single hall-bath refresh in a 1960s Burlingame ranch are very different jobs. The Thornapple process — discovery, design, fixed price, build, walkthrough — is the same for both, and there's an honest entry point at every budget in a value-conscious Wyoming market.
The biggest lifestyle upgrade a Wyoming home gets. Curbless tile shower, freestanding tub, double vanity, water closet, layered lighting, and heated floors — often pairing with a closet redesign next door. See full detail on luxury bathroom remodeling in Grand Rapids.
The bath your kids share, your in-laws use, your dinner guests see. In most mid-century Wyoming ranches this is the single full bath in the house — so we treat it like the workhorse it is: vanity, tile, fixtures, lighting, and ventilation upgraded as one durable unit.
The smallest bath in the house often does the most styling work. Wallpaper, a statement mirror, a custom vanity, and lighting that makes the room feel curated rather than ignored. Quick to design, quick to build — usually 2 to 3 weeks.
The signature Wyoming scope. A 1950s–1970s ranch bath with pink or beige tile, a builder-grade vanity, and a fiberglass tub-shower combo, brought forward thirty years — often expanding the cramped footprint into an adjacent closet for a second sink. We plan around the original plumbing stack and framing so it doesn't become a surprise mid-project.
For many Wyoming clients, the mid-century ranch they bought decades ago is the home they intend to grow old in. Curbless zero-threshold showers, comfort-height fixtures, reinforced walls for future grab bars, wider doorways, and slip-resistant tile that still reads as finished. Built so today's bathroom quietly serves the next thirty years. Detail on our accessibility remodeling page.
Removing a tub you never use and building a real tile-and-mortar curbless shower in its place. Done right — with proper slope, a linear drain, and a waterproofing membrane — this is the single most-requested upgrade in Wyoming ranch bathrooms. Not a one-day liner over old tile.
Wyoming is the largest suburb of Grand Rapids — 76,000-plus people, deep civic identity, and a housing stock built mostly between 1950 and 2000. Knowing the local details is half the job before a single tile gets ordered.
The dominant bathroom in Wyoming sits in a 1950s through 1970s brick ranch, Cape Cod, or tri-level off Burlingame, Byron Center Ave, Clyde Park, or Burton Street. These homes were typically built with one full bath off the hall and a tiny half-bath off the kitchen — a single-sink layout in what is now a two-adult household, a fiberglass tub-shower combo, and pink or beige tile that dates the whole house. The most common Wyoming bathroom project is modernizing that footprint: converting the tub to a curbless walk-in tile shower, adding a double vanity, and sometimes expanding into an adjacent closet.
Behind the walls, mid-century Wyoming bathrooms usually hide original 60-amp or 100-amp electrical service, galvanized supply lines mixed with later copper, cast-iron drains, and plaster in older sections. We modernize what's behind the walls — the supply lines, the drain configuration, the venting, GFCI-protected circuits, and proper exhaust ventilation — as part of the scope, so the new bathroom is built on systems that last as long as the tile. And we price those realities into the fixed contract during discovery, so they never become surprise change orders once walls open.
Wyoming is its own incorporated city with its own building department — separate from Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Grandville, and Kent County. Residential bathroom remodels go through the City of Wyoming Building Inspections Division at 1155 28th St SW, about 1.5 miles from our office. Most local copy gets the jurisdiction wrong, or skips permits entirely; we work that counter every week and know the staff by name.
For the older neighborhoods — Marquette, Banner, Galewood, Kelloggsville, with postwar Capes and bungalows north of 28th Street — there's one more detail competitors rarely mention: for homes built before 1978, we follow EPA RRP lead-safe work practices on any project disturbing more than 6 square feet of interior painted surface. Wyoming's mature housing stock makes that routine. We pull every permit and coordinate every inspection — rough plumbing, rough electrical, and final — so you never have to call the city.
Below are honest 2026 ranges for Wyoming bathrooms. Pricing depends on scope, square footage, and finish level. Wyoming numbers index at or below the metro median because this is a value-conscious market — so we keep a genuine value-tier entry point rather than pushing every project toward a luxury suite. Final pricing is always locked into a fixed-price contract after design. For a deeper breakdown, read our full bathroom remodel cost in Grand Rapids guide or run a quick estimate in the cost estimator.
A focused, value-minded update for a guest or hall bath — new vanity, fresh tile, modern fixtures, lighting, paint, and flooring inside the existing footprint. Plumbing stays where it is. The right fit when the layout works but the finishes feel two decades behind the rest of your Wyoming home.
A full remodel inside the existing walls — a new tile shower with frameless glass, a custom or semi-custom vanity, quartz tops, upgraded plumbing and electrical, designer lighting, and quality finishes throughout. Minor layout tweaks and small plumbing relocations included. Our most common Wyoming scope.
A spa-quality primary bath — curbless tile shower, freestanding soaking tub, double vanity, heated floors, premium fixtures, and custom tile work. Includes meaningful plumbing relocations and the kind of details you notice every morning. The standard scope when a Wyoming primary bath becomes a daily retreat.
Primary bath taken to the studs and reimagined — wall removals, an expanded footprint into the closet or an adjacent bedroom, a custom shower, designer stone, an integrated closet redesign, and a full systems upgrade. The right scope when you want the bath to feel like a private wing of your Wyoming home.
Original 1950s through 1970s Wyoming bathrooms sometimes carry a modest adder once we open walls — galvanized supply lines worth replacing, cast-iron drains, undersized 60- or 100-amp service, and lead-paint RRP handling in pre-1978 homes. We plan for those realities in the discovery phase and price them into the fixed contract so they don't become surprise change orders mid-project. For more on what drives the price, read our bathroom remodel cost guide or call (616) 404-3400.
Wyoming has its own building department, separate from Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Grandville, and Kent County. Residential bathroom remodels go through the City of Wyoming Building Inspections Division at 1155 28th St SW — about 1.5 miles from our office. Any bathroom project that relocates plumbing, adds or moves electrical circuits, touches structural framing, or alters mechanical ventilation requires a building permit. Like-for-like cosmetic work — paint, a same-location vanity swap, flooring, like-for-like fixture replacement with no plumbing changes — usually does not.
The typical Wyoming residential plan-review timeline is 1 to 2 weeks for standard bathroom scope. The inspection sequence for a bathroom that relocates plumbing and adds circuits runs rough plumbing, rough electrical, any required mechanical, and a final building inspection. Thornapple pulls every permit, coordinates every inspection, and handles every interaction with the Wyoming Building Inspections Division as part of the fixed-price contract. You never have to chase a sign-off, call a sub-trade, or learn the difference between a rough-in and a final inspection.
For the pre-1978 homes that fill Wyoming's older neighborhoods, we also follow EPA RRP lead-safe work practices on any project that disturbs more than 6 square feet of interior painted surface — a code most local competitors never mention, but one Wyoming's mature housing stock makes routine for us. The detailed permit breakdown for the wider region lives on our Grand Rapids remodeling permits page; for Wyoming-specific projects we handle the city directly.
Every Thornapple bathroom — from a powder-room refresh to a full primary suite — runs through the same five phases. Same protected process in Wyoming as anywhere we build, just with the project lead minutes away instead of across the metro.
A free, no-commitment phone call followed by an in-home consultation at your Wyoming address. We listen to how you actually use the space, measure the bathroom, take photos, talk through scope and finish level, and build a rough 3D model in real time. You walk away with an honest budget range tied to scope choices — before you commit to anything.
Once you decide to move forward, we refine the 3D model, finalize tile, fixtures, vanity, shower configuration, and finishes, and pull every sub-trade into the same set of plans. You see everything — real tile samples, fixture renderings, photorealistic 3D — before anything is ordered. No "I thought it would look different" moments.
Every line item, every material, every trade — itemized in writing. The number you sign is the number you pay. No allowance games. No "we'll figure it out later." This is where most Wyoming remodelers and Thornapple part ways — we lock the price before demolition, and the only way it moves is if you decide to change scope.
Wyoming Building Department permits pulled, dust barriers installed, a portable restroom for the crew on-site, daily photo updates in your private project portal, and a single Thornapple-employed lead running the schedule. Trades coordinated. Inspections handled. Deliveries staged from our Wyoming shop. You have one phone number to call — not five.
Final inspection, punch-list walkthrough, and handoff. Every Thornapple bathroom carries a two-year workmanship warranty in writing, plus manufacturer warranties on fixtures and materials. And in Wyoming, warranty service is local — a same-week visit, not a scheduling negotiation six months out.
You have one direct contact from the first call through final walkthrough — and that contact is based in Wyoming. No call center, no handoffs between sales and production, no "let me find out who is supposed to know that." Read the full design-build process.
Real Thornapple projects from Wyoming and the surrounding West Michigan communities. Real fixed-price contracts, real finishes. Descriptive names only — no client names, no street addresses.
A dated mid-century primary bath taken down to the studs and rebuilt as a daily spa retreat for a Wyoming-area family. Scope: curbless walk-in tile shower with linear drain, freestanding soaking tub, double vanity with quartz tops, custom tile feature wall, heated tile flooring, layered lighting, and an upgraded ventilation system.
A dated builder-grade primary bath transformed into a clean-lined modern retreat for a West Michigan family near Wyoming. Scope: bold statement tile, a frameless glass shower enclosure, a custom floating vanity with integrated storage, statement pendant lighting, and quartz tops. The layout stayed inside the existing footprint — the transformation is entirely about finishes, fixtures, and how the room feels at 6 a.m.
The single shared hall bath in a mid-century Wyoming-area ranch brought forward thirty years on a value-minded budget. Scope: new vanity with a quartz top, a full tile tub-and-shower surround, modern fixtures and lighting, updated ventilation, and durable tile flooring — all inside the existing footprint. A fixed-price refresh that respects a value-conscious budget without cutting corners on waterproofing.
For many of our Wyoming clients, the mid-century ranch they bought decades ago is the home they intend to grow old in. The neighbors, the proximity to family, the church and the schools — none of that needs to change. The bathroom does. And the goal isn't a clinical, institutional space. It's a beautiful primary or hall bath that quietly makes life easier as the years go on.
We design for that future intentionally. A zero-threshold tile shower that reads as finished today and becomes essential tomorrow. Comfort-height fixtures and wider doorways that disappear into the architecture. Reinforced walls so grab bars can be added later without tearing into tile. Layered lighting that protects against falls without ever feeling fluorescent. Slip-resistant tile that still feels good underfoot.
Done right, you won't see the planning. You'll see a bathroom that simply feels good — at fifty, at seventy, at every stage in between. The full breakdown lives on our accessibility remodeling in Grand Rapids page, and a longer read in our aging-in-place remodeling guide.
Every part of Wyoming has a different era of housing stock and a different bathroom conversation. Here's how we approach each area — and from our 36th Street office, we're minutes from all of them.
Mid-century core (Burlingame, Clyde Park, Burton) — 1950s–1970s brick ranches, Capes, and tri-levels with a single full hall bath. The dominant scope here is the tub-to-curbless-shower conversion and modernizing that one shared bath, often expanding into an adjacent closet for a second sink.
Marquette & Banner — postwar Capes and bungalows north of 28th Street with plaster walls, original woodwork, and mixed plumbing. Character-aware bathroom remodels with EPA RRP lead-safe handling for the pre-1978 homes.
Galewood & Kelloggsville — established older neighborhoods with brick homes improved by every owner since the 1940s. Full bath rebuilds that update the systems behind the walls while respecting the home's character.
Southwestern subdivisions (near Rivertown Crossings, 56th St, Byron Center Ave) — 1980s–2000s two-stories and ranches with builder-grade baths now ready for their first major refresh. Mid-range remodels and finish-level upgrades; less structural complexity, more value-for-money.
Near Grand Rapids Christian schools — brick colonials and two-stories along the Wyoming/Grand Rapids border. Stay-not-move primary-bath redos and aging-in-place builds for the next chapter of family life.
Wyoming-adjacent Grand Rapids — Garfield Park, Roosevelt Park, Burton Heights, and Alger Heights, the southwest GR neighborhoods closest to Wyoming. Same fast mobilization from our 36th Street shop.
Wyoming sits in the middle of a tight cluster of West Michigan communities. We build bathrooms across all of them — just with the fastest mobilization the closer you are to 36th Street. This page is part of our broader Wyoming remodeling practice and our parent bathroom remodel service line.
The real questions Wyoming homeowners ask before booking a bathroom remodel — not the generic ones the franchises recycle.
Yes — and Wyoming is our home city. Thornapple Construction is headquartered at 619 36th St SW, Wyoming, MI 49509. We are not driving in from across town; we are your neighbors. We remodel bathrooms throughout Wyoming, from the older Marquette, Banner, Galewood, and Kelloggsville neighborhoods north of 28th Street to the mid-century ranches off Burlingame and Clyde Park to the newer subdivisions near Rivertown Crossings and 56th Street. Scopes range from a focused guest-bath refresh to a full primary suite with a curbless walk-in shower. Most Wyoming homes are 5 to 15 minutes from our office.
Wyoming bathroom remodels land in four practical bands. A focused refresh inside the existing footprint runs $12,000 to $18,000. A full mid-range remodel with a new tile shower, custom vanity, and upgraded plumbing and electrical typically runs $25,000 to $35,000. A luxury primary bath with a curbless tile shower, freestanding tub, double vanity, and heated floors lands at $35,000 to $50,000. A suite-plus build that pulls walls and expands the footprint into a closet or adjacent room starts around $50,000. Those are honest value-tier ranges for a value-conscious Wyoming market — not allowance-game estimates designed to win the bid and grow later. Every Thornapple project is locked at a fixed-price contract once scope is finalized: the quote is the price you pay. Full breakdown in our bathroom remodel cost guide.
Most bathroom remodels in Wyoming that relocate plumbing, add or move electrical circuits, touch structural framing, or alter ventilation require a building permit from the City of Wyoming Building Inspections Division at 1155 28th St SW — about 1.5 miles from our office. Wyoming has its own building department, separate from Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Grandville, and Kent County. Like-for-like cosmetic work — paint, a same-location vanity swap, flooring, like-for-like fixture replacement with no plumbing changes — usually does not. We pull every permit and coordinate every inspection — rough plumbing, rough electrical, and final — as part of the fixed-price contract. You never have to call the city. See our Grand Rapids remodeling permits guide for municipality-by-municipality detail.
Two scopes account for most of the Wyoming bathrooms we build. First, the tub-to-curbless-shower conversion — removing a tub nobody uses in a 1960s ranch and building a real tile-and-mortar curbless shower with proper slope, a linear drain, and a waterproofing membrane. Second, modernizing the single cramped hall bath that most mid-century Wyoming ranches were built with — new vanity, tile, fixtures, lighting, ventilation, and often expanding it into an adjacent closet for a second sink. Both transform the daily routine without leaving the neighborhood, and both are priced into a fixed contract before demolition starts.
Yes — this is one of the most common project types we build in Wyoming. Many Wyoming homeowners bought their mid-century ranch decades ago and intend to stay long-term. We design curbless zero-threshold showers, comfort-height fixtures, reinforced walls so grab bars install cleanly later, wider doorways, slip-resistant tile that still reads as finished, and layered lighting that protects against falls without ever feeling clinical. Done right, the planning disappears into the architecture — a beautiful bathroom that quietly serves the next thirty years. Full detail on our accessibility remodeling page.
Most Wyoming bathroom remodels run 4 to 8 weeks from demolition to final walkthrough. A powder-room refresh can finish in 2 to 3 weeks. A full primary suite with custom tile, plumbing relocation, and longer material lead times can push toward 10 weeks. We map every milestone in your project portal before demo day, so you always know what's happening on-site and what's coming next. Wyoming projects often land at the shorter end because our crew, deliveries, and project lead all come from a Wyoming office — less travel time means more build time on your site. Week-by-week detail in our bathroom remodel timeline guide.
Yes — if you have at least one other working bathroom in the home, you can keep using it through the entire project. We install plastic dust barriers to contain the work zone to the bathroom being remodeled, lay floor coverings on the path to it, and bring our own portable restroom for the crew so they never use your other baths. For the many mid-century Wyoming ranches that have only one full bath, we talk through staging and sequencing during discovery so you always have a plan — and because our office is minutes away, an adjustment gets handled the same morning.
Actually based in Wyoming. Our office is at 619 36th St SW, Wyoming, MI 49509, between Burlingame and Clyde Park, in the geographic middle of the city. Most Wyoming bathrooms are 5 to 15 minutes from the office. That proximity is a real advantage on your project: the lead is on site faster for finish sign-offs and punch-list walks, deliveries and material staging happen from our shop instead of clogging your driveway, and warranty service after the bathroom is done is local — a same-week visit, not a scheduling negotiation. Our office is by appointment only; all consultations happen at your home.
Our full bathroom remodel page — scope, process, what's included, and FAQs for the wider Grand Rapids market.
What a bathroom remodel actually costs in the Grand Rapids area — fixtures, tile, labor, and what drives the price. The same ranges apply to Wyoming.
Run your Wyoming bathroom scope through our estimator for a quick budget range before booking the discovery call.
Curbless showers, comfort-height fixtures, and grab-bar-ready walls — lifelong-design bathrooms for Wyoming homeowners staying put.
Our full Wyoming remodeling overview — kitchens, baths, basements, additions, and whole-home renovations from a builder headquartered in Wyoming.
Planning the kitchen too? Mid-century ranch openings and full-custom rebuilds from the same 36th Street office.
Wyoming is home for us — same protected process, fastest mobilization, most lead time on your site. It starts with a free discovery call and an in-home consultation, with 3D design on the spot. No commitment. No pressure. Just clarity on what your bathroom can be and what it will actually cost — from a builder five minutes down the road.
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